The day’s top pitching performance probably belonged to Arizona State lefthander Josh Spence, who struck out 13 over seven scoreless innings in a 3-1 win against No. 15 Missouri. Impressively, this was Spence’s second strong start of the year, as he worked six scoreless innings Friday against Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Looks like the Sun Devils have a special one in Spence.■ StripesAndSeams.com has thoughts on the loss Tuesday:
Freshman pitcher Jeff Emens got the loss last night and from what I heard on the radio was that both of the home runs he gave up were moon-shots. The first one■ Eric Sorenson, formerly of CSTV, has a new blog called College BaseballToday.com, worth checking out. Especially check out the collection of photos of "stitch head" fans from around the country on opening weekend.
went like this..
Tex Little: “And the pitch…(ping)ITS ONE-NOTHING SUN DEVILS”
■ The Columbia Missourian published a good AP feature: Scherzer hope to jump-start pro career in 2009
Price said Scherzer’s mental approach stands out, perhaps even more than his repertoire, which he’s still developing.
“He looks at the game a lot differently than most, in that I haven’t noticed any outward fear or reluctance,” Price said. “It’s almost as if he’s playing a game and the opponent is unimportant. He understands what he needs to do to be successful.”
■ Thanks to Stripes & Seams for linking to a piece on The Hardball Times on The color of clutch, a statistical approach to measuring clutch hitting:
There is no question: clutch hitting does exist. Indeed, as long as you make humans the central participants in contexts that change wildly, it will be a foregone conclusion that the results will not be completely random from our expectation of those participants. Therefore, that we find the existence of clutch hitting is not terribly exciting. It is expected. However, we haven't established the degree to which it exists, nor have we established the likelihood that we can even find the thing that we know exists.■ And in case you were wondering what happened to every MU fan's favorite arrogant third baseman, The Louisville Courier-Journal has a story about Chris Dominguez just playing the market:
Coach Dan McDonnell said Dominguez is now "the face of our lineup."
"Any time you're playing us you have to be familiar with who he is and what he's done in college baseball," McDonnell said. "It's also an opportunity for the other
hitters to thrive. It's kind of like Manny Ramirez and what he does for the Dodgers' lineup."
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